Month: August 2005

It happened one night!

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I’ve met so many interesting, complicated, funny, strange people this year, I can’t even begin to describe them! But I can attempt to make a start with Lavannya and Vivek. Both of them : such brilliant photographers and so talented. Interesting personalities. One naturally outgoing. The other, quietly unassuming. And their work speaks more than words : awe-inspiring stuff. When I met Lavannya at a Bangalore Shutterbugs meet, she made quite a big impression 🙂 We kept in touch and then one stormy evening, we met at Shiok on our first official “date” and had a nice heart-to-heart chat till the rapidly deteriorating weather forced us to think of finding our ways home. She kept getting messages from a “somebody” who wanted to make sure she would be okay getting home. I kept asking her why “somebody” was getting so worried and teased her mercilessly! Anyway, one year later, they’re married! A huge congratulations to Lavannya and Vivek : wishing you loads and loads of happiness and good times ahead… We missed out on all …

Postcards from Pondicherry

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On the long weekend (Aug 13-15), about 15 of us headed to Pondicherry. So this is a little late but I usually follow the maxim, “better late than never”! It took about 100 mails going to and fro. Finally, about 15 people decided on Pondi as the destination for the long weekend. The last time I went to Pondi, I have warm (or should I say hot) recollections of walking around the place in what seemed like 40+ temperatures. Sweat oozing out of our glands like juice out of lemons. I had only my sister for company. Both of us wearing cute colourful caps and walking around in the summer heat trying to look cool and discovering Auroville in all its splendour. That was a fun time! This time it was a little different. For starters there were so many of us that at times I felt like we were at Forum! Restaurants had a real problem with us since it’s hard to find a table that accommodates so many together. And the waiters in …

Catch the fib!

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This is a meme from Anupma’s journal. Just for some harmless fun… And a prize! 1. Though I am a right hander, I occasionally eat with my left hand. I believe that it makes my food tastier for some reason! 2. I am an avid fan of horror movies. My favourite past time is renting out 3-4 of them and watching them in succession. Through the night. With company of course (need someone to clutch during scary scenes). And loads of popcorn! 3. I once went to Goa and ate only chicken. No beer, and surprisingly, no fish at all! 4. My favourite perfume is Lancôme’s Poeme. 5. i love writing long emails in lower case only. i think it is really cool and once in a while i’ve even posted blog entries written completely in lower case. i simply ‘lowe’ it! i am going to write a book someday. all in lower case. So here it is : I fibbed : just once. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, and know …

A Victorian Walk down MG Road

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– I have gone down MG Road several times and never once noticed that one solitary bungalow just after the Yahoo! office. – I have driven past Nalli showroom time again and never noticed the empty space beside it. – The bungalow apparently belongs to the only person who is not selling out to commercial developers. I mean, how many people can boast of having a residence on MG Road? The empty space is apparently the plot of the bungalow where Winston Churchill had lived in, when he was in Bangalore. – Churchill wrote 2 books when he was stationed in Bangalore as an army officer. He also fell in love for the first time in Bangalore and the lady was from Hyderabad. She went on to marry someone else. – Did you know that the term ‘Bangalored’ began before the whole outsourcing controversy started and has military origins. These and other really interesting facts formed a part of the ‘Victorian’ flavoured walk that Shibs and I went on early Saturday morning. A group of …

Rain, rain go away

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A few years ago, I remember being stranded in office during the height of the Mumbai monsoons. Reading this account, I was transported to that day. There were about 12 of us. We had a small office at Fort. This was before we shifted to our larger office in Mahim. We started playing dumb charades at about 7 in the evening to keep ourselves entertained. When we heard that the trains had stopped, most of us gave up any attempt to try and get out of office. Some braved the odds and took taxis from Fort to their far off homes. Though it turned out to be a really expensive proposition, since most of them had to shell out heaps of money. In fact, finding cabs under the circumstances were also next to impossible. The best thing, as we discovered, is to stay put wherever you are. And that’s exactly what we did. It turned out to be a memorable night. Ordered fish curry rice from a restaurant nearby. All of us sat around the …